Well, we have been experimenting today..
Trying to understand redundancy and how/what to do.. the manual isn't that helpful, however RcJets63 and I were conferencing today.. His previous post describes how to set up Redundant receivers..
for sake of argument, lets call that Parallel mode.. I went after the Sat(clone) mode today.. its not as easy as its made out to be to understand it.. Lets call that Serial mode..
The main receiver does EVERYTHING.. the Sat receiver is made to be dumb and simply passes PPM coding directly to the sat port, but theyBOTH have to be configured..
Short version:
Clone.. With 3.11 Software in rx, its actually easier to program rx.. Put the bind plug in Telem port and power it.. Turn on transmitter.. It will ask you if you want to bind.. do it.. LEAVE the Bind plug in for the setup of the Clone.. turn the volume down because it will continue to beep. Then go into the device explorer and set it up to output PPM Pos and set frame rate to same as your primary receiver.. I used .17sec then disable Failsafe in the Sat. Then go into the Jeti emulator and put it into clone mode.. It will stay in normal mode until you pull the bind plug.. pull the bind plug and it will start beeping signal loss.. done..
Look in the receiver chart to find out what ppm output port to use for the sat.. for instance on the R5L its port 5..
Bind your main receiver normally, get it working all your servos and such.. then go into device explorer and go to the SAT 1 or Sat2 menu.. pick a port and set it for PPM input if its not already set up.. Then go into Jeti Emulator and find the PinOutput menu and go down then over to find the Sat Port and make sure its enabled to PPM input, and that it is set to Alarm "S" (weak signal).. The manual says use A.. that is not correct.. thats the altitude warning..
power everything down.. Plug in the Sat PpM output into the SAT port on main rx.. Power Transmitter, then Rx. You will only see Receiver antenna strength for main rx.. the Sat is in the background just providing PPM input... to test if the Main receiver is checking for it, unplug the sat.. It will say weak signal, or morse code it.. plug it back in and it stops..
Thats the "serial" mode or Main/CLone mode.. It takes some playing around to get it.. but with this mode BOTH transmitter modules are talking to BOTH receivers.. But remember you an only receive telemetry from one of them, so the clone just sits there and gives a steady PPM stream to the Main... If it loses signal, the PPM stream stops, and it alarms.. If the Main receiver loses its input signal, it will switch over to the PPM port and keep going, and alarm signal lost.. clever..
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